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• Nov 13 | Sports Illustrated | 423 Engagements: “UC Davis Says Baseball Team Hazed Students With Alcohol. A Northern California state university said Friday that its varsity baseball team engaged in “an annual initiation tradition” of hazing new players with challenges including “dangerously excessive drinking and other inappropriate activities,” leading to the team’s suspension last summer and the head coach’s resignation on Friday”

• Nov 11 | WLBT | 240 Engagements: “Pi Kappa Alpha at the University of Mississippi has been suspended for hazing. The Pi Kappa Alpha International Fraternity, that’s headquartered in Memphis, says the Gammi Iota chapter at Ole Miss has been suspended until May 2025. Officials say the decision came after an investigation with the university uncovered acts of hazing.” 

• Nov 16 | Twitter | Christopher F. Rufo | 3.7K Retweets: “It's time to clean house in America: remove the attorney general, lay siege to the universities, abolish the teachers unions, and overturn the school boards.”

• Nov 17 | Twitter | John Fetterman | 94 Retweets: “Kutztown University is the *only* PA state school without a unionized food service work force. That's gotta change. I stand with Kutztown workers in their fight to unionize. They deserve a fundamentally fair contract so that they can deliver for Kutztown students.”

• Nov 16 | Stars and Stripes | 188 Engagements: “Normal recovery time from a concussion is sometimes double what it was previously thought to be, according to a recent University of Michigan study that was heavily funded by the Pentagon. Researchers studied 1,751 student-athletes, including service academy cadets, and found that full recovery can take up to 28 days. And even that was not long enough for some of the study subjects to fully heal.”

• Nov 11 | The Washington Post | 1.9K Engagements: “Virginia’s senators called for an investigation into Liberty University over the school’s handling of sexual misconduct claims. Sen. Mark R. Warner (D) said Wednesday he was deeply troubled by a ProPublica story describing women’s experiences at the private evangelical school. “Recent reports only underscore the need for federal policymakers to improve transparency, consistency, and accountability at our institutions of higher learning,” he said in a written statement.”

• Nov 11 | ESPN | 7.7K Engagements: “Police charged Georgia linebacker Adam Anderson with felony rape on Wednesday after a 21-year-old woman accused him of raping her in an apartment in Athens, Georgia, on Oct. 29.”

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• Nov 11 | Newsmax | 14.5K Engagements: “New York State is incentivizing parents to get their children vaccinated against COVID-19 by offering 50 four-year, full-ride scholarships to any public college or university in the state. The program, "Vaccinate, Educate, Graduate," was announced Tuesday by Gov. Kathy Hochul.”

• Nov 13 | Twitter | Brian Lenzkes | 1.7K Retweets: “Sad to see the USC-Cal game cancelled. I hope they make a quick recovery. "44 players and staff tested positive for coronavirus. These seem to be breakthrough cases, since Cal says 99 percent of the team is fully vaccinated."”

• Nov 10 | Twitter | Bernie Sanders | 718 Retweets: “67% of the American people support universal pre-K. 61% of the American people support tuition-free community college. We MUST invest in the future of our children. NOW.”

• Nov 15 | Twitter | Ayanna Pressley | 418 Retweets: “Broad-based student debt cancellation is an investment in our families, communities, and economy. @POTUS has the authority to #CancelStudentDebt with the stroke of a pen & he must use it to provide transformative relief for millions of borrowers crushed by this crisis.”

• Nov 16 | Twitter | Andy Ngô | 460 Retweets: “Allyn (Allyson) Walker, the trans leftist professor who argues for the destigmatization of pedophilia, has been placed on leave by the university. @ODU says it is doing it out of safety concerns for the professor.”

• Nov 17 | Twitter | Lee Fang | 206 Retweets: “University of Chicago student Shaoxiong Zheng murdered on his walk home by a young man who wanted to steal his backpack. Zheng is the *third* UofC student killed this year by gun violence. No other developed country has this problem at its elite schools.”

• Nov 15 | Twitter | Ted Cruz | 1.3K Retweets: “I think the new muppet is great. Dems compulsively try to project their bigotry onto everyone else. Biden dismissed DOJ civil rights suit against Yale for discriminating against #AsianAmericans I filed a bill to stop Asian American college discrimination; EVERY DEM voted NO.”

• Nov 16 | The Algemeiner | 326 Engagements: “Students Supporting Israel (SSI) said on Tuesday that it was “appalled” after a rare veto was issued by the student government to prevent recognition of a Duke University chapter of the pro-Israel group.”

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• Nov 13 | KXLY | 979 Engagements: “The 5th ranked Texas Longhorns were the highest ranked team to ever come play Gonzaga in the Kennel, and they left the same way most do, with a loss.  The number one ranked Zags were very impressive with a 86-74 win Saturday night.”
   
• Nov 13 | Twitter | Jon Rothstein | 47 Retweets: “The biggest thing that went through my head over the past few hours? How unique it would be if Gonzaga ever one day played power conference opponents on a regular basis --- in a power conference.”

• Nov 16 | UPROXX | 1.5K Engagements: “students at Syracuse University would rather not have Rudy Giuliani associated with their school—particularly as his degree is an honorary one...the university’s Student Association and Student Bar Association are currently petitioning the school to revoke the honorary doctorate that was bestowed upon Giuliani by Syracuse’s College of Law.”

• Nov 14 | Sports Illustrated | 11.6K Engagements: “It was mayhem at Jones AT&T Stadium when Jonathan Garibay, who will never have to buy a drink in Lubbock again, nailed the field goal of the year on Saturday. 
  
  With the score tied at 38 between Texas Tech and Iowa State, the senior kicker had the accuracy and the distance to hit a 62-yard field goal to give Texas Tech the walk-off win in an unreal sequence.”
   
• Nov 13 | Twitter | PFF College Football | 270 Retweets: “62-YARD WALK-OFF FG BY TEXAS TECH https://t.co/Yf2Iz12Wt0”

• Nov 13 | Sports Illustrated | 6.1K Engagements: “With the win, Baylor earned its first victory against a top-10 opponent since 2015 when the Bears defeated North Carolina. It also marks the program's first win against a top-10 opponent in Waco since a 2014 win over Kansas State.”
   
• Nov 13 | Twitter | Skip Bayless | 145 Retweets: “Lincoln Riley is throwing a fit about Baylor's students storming the field before Baylor's final kneel-down. Feels like coach Riley is just trying to take some of the focus off what just happened: Oklahoma got its butt kicked by the Baylor Bears.”

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• Nov 14 | Eleven Warriors | 7.4K Engagements: “ESPN's college football pregame show will be on campus next weekend to preview Ohio State's top-10 showdown with Michigan State as the teams battle with Big Ten title and College Football Playoff hopes on the line.”
   
• Nov 12 | Twitter | Fred Guttenberg | 872 Retweets: “Does anyone in America want to hear from a Congressman who did nothing when sex crimes were committed against students at Ohio State? Didn't @Jim_Jordan work at Ohio State?"

• Nov 11 | Breitbart | 3.7K Engagements: “Texas A&M Student Hurt at Travis Scott’s Astroworld Festival Dies; Now 9 Fatalities Total”
   
• Nov 11 | Twitter | Complex | 563 Retweets: “UPDATE: Bharti Shahani, a Texas A&M student who suffered injuries at #Astroworld, has died. She was 22 years old. May She Rest in Peace. Our thoughts are with her family. 🙏 The latest: https://t.co/CwGRTLSpFd https://t.co/w5bi4THJ7n"

• Nov 17 | The Spun | 2.2K Engagements: “According to a report from former college football coach Jake Crain, LSU offered Riley an eight-year, $96 million deal.”
   
• Nov 17 | Twitter | Bruce Feldman | 303 Retweets: “Lots of chatter about Lincoln Riley leaving OU for LSU. But am hearing that is not gonna happen."

• Nov 15 | Daily Wire | 602.9K Engagements: “Harvard Law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz claimed that Kyle Rittenhouse should be acquitted in his murder trial this week, then sue media organizations for smearing him.
  
  Dershowitz appeared on Newsmax on Saturday and said that Rittenhouse, who is on trial for killing two men and wounding a third during riots in Wisconsin last year, should walk free under the “reasonable doubt” standard that he acted in self-defense.”
   
• Nov 17 | Twitter | Kurt Anderson | 465 Retweets: “Wow. “43% of Harvard’s white students are either recruited athletes, legacy students, on the dean’s interest list”—donors’ kids—“or children of faculty and staff. Three-quarters of these applicants would have been rejected” otherwise. https://t.co/lseHx9Dyeu"